My ongoing theme is always the truth, as I see it, and the exposure of lies, deception and manipulation wherever they exist. I remain firmly convinced that the world can no longer resist its innate urge to unite and co-operate with one another and we are very close to the point where war can no longer be an option if this transformation is to occur. Website: allenroland.com Email: allen@allenroland.com

Saturday, January 14, 2017

A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME ~ YOU'RE FIRED CNN!!

To fully understand President-elect Donald Trump, you must watch
Trump's favorite film, Citizen Kane ~ and realize that Trump sees the United
States as one of his many companies or possessions. Trump will be just as willing
to possess it or eventually discard it, if it fails to satisfy his monstrous
authoritarian ego ~ like Citizen Kane, he will eventually self-implode
from unlimited greed and will take his Empire down with him. But not before
revealing the enormous money behind Trump in the hands of Robert and Rebecca
Mercer whose massive political infrastructure saved Trump's campaign from
disaster last summer and then financed his tainted victory : Allen L Roland,
PhD

“Remember that the
left controls Hollywood. They control entertainment. They control the movies.
They control television. They control mass media. They control certainly
journalism. And so, what Citizens United has figured out is that through the
media, they can in fact move public opinion. They can shape America, and
thereby shape Washington.” ~ Citizens
United Promo

In the months leading up to Trump’s presidential win, Robert and Rebecca
Mercers would prove aformidable
force. Beginning after the disastrous Republican convention in July, they would
furnish the Trump campaign not only with millions of dollars but with new
leadership.

Robert Mercer and President-elect Donald Trump

The Mercer Hedgefund is known for
its secrecy. It’s been closed to outside investors since 2005, and what exactly
they trade isn’t fully understood. What is known is that what Mercer along with
retired Renaissance Technologies founder James Simons and co CEO Peter Brown have
done is master the math behind something called quantitative trading, which
involves gaming the stock market using advanced algorithms and data analysis to
create unprecedented profits.

But they would furnish Trump with
something more ~ a vast network of non-profits, strategists, media companies,
research institutions and super PACs that they themselves funded, and largely
controlled.

This explains Donald Trump's megalomania for he is supported with Mercer
Foundation house money as is clearly seen in this must see 25 minute Real News
Network expose ~ https://youtu.be/It7anI_t8Xw

During Tuesday's
Press Conference Trump Insisted that he had the right to do whatever he
wanted, Trump at one point declared: “As president, I could run the Trump
organization, great, great company, and I could run the company ~ the country.
I’d do a very good job [at both], but I don’t want to do that.”

The Freudian slip,
mixing up “company” and “country,” was the most revealing moment
in the press conference. For Trump, the “country” and the “company”
and, more broadly, the oligarchy ~ are one and the same. See WSWS article ~ Trump press conference:
The oligarchy rules ~http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/01/12/pers-j12.html

See
the biggest moments from Donald Trump’s fiery press conferenceand an ego beginning to unravel ~ 3
minute must see video.

As
I said, to fully understand President-elect Donald Trump, you must watch
Trump's favorite film, Citizen Kane and understand that unrestrained greed and
power fueled by childhood emotional deprivation and the need to prove yourself
can easily lead to self-implosion and eventually self-destruction.

" Kane was raised without a family. He was
snatched from his mother's arms in early childhood. His parents were a
bank. From the point of view of the psychologist, my character had never made
what is known as "transference" from his mother. Hence his failure
with his wives. In making this clear during the course of the picture, it
was my attempt to lead the thoughts of my audience closer and closer to the
solution of the enigma of his dying words. These were "Rosebud."
The device of the picture calls for a newspaperman (who didn't know Kane) to
interview people who knew him very well. None had ever heard of "Rosebud."
Actually, as it turns out, "Rosebud" is the trade name of a cheap
little sled on which Kane was playing on the day he was taken away from his
home and his mother. In his subconscious it represented the simplicity, the
comfort, above all the lack of responsibility in his home, and also it stood
for his mother's love which Kane never lost."

"The
protagonist of my "failure story" must retreat from a
democracy which his money fails to buy and his power fails to control. ~ There
are two retreats possible: death and the womb. The house was the womb. Here too
was all the grandeur, all the despotism, which my man had found lacking in the
outside world. Such was his estate ~ such was the obvious repository for a
collection large enough to include, without straining the credulity of the
audience ~ a little toy sled from the dead past of a great man."

In
real life Donald Trump was born in 1946 ,
was an energetic and bright child. His parents sent him to the New York
Military Academy at age thirteen, hoping the discipline of the school would
channel his energy in a positive manner but instead it may have caused him
to close his heart and set in motion his desire to accumulate wealth and
possessions in order to fill the emotional void of his early separation from
love, his family and deep fear of failure.Benjamin
Hufbauer, Politico Magazine, also makes the Citizen Kane connection with Donald
Trump but comments that Trump could never grasp the film's central point and
most likely, I would add, because of his
fear of failure.

Excerpt: "Citizen
Trump didn’t come out of nowhere. He’s a character type with a long history in
America ~ the narcissistic, acquisitive magnate who, in the words of Orson
Welles, is “interested in imposing his will”on the
country in what is, in the end, just another act of self-aggrandizement. That
was Welles’ description of Charles Foster Kane, the protagonist in his classic Citizen Kane,
which Trump identified back in 1992 as his “all-time favorite movie,” an
endorsement he repeated in his
interview with Megyn Kelly in May."

The film was based on the life of another strident and
megalomaniacal magnate, William Randolph Hearst, and it told the sad story of
the corrupting influence of vast wealth. Welles later said he meant it as a
cautionary tale about this American type. “I must admit that it was intended
consciously as a sort of social document, as an attack on the acquisitive
society—and indeed on acquisition in general,” Welles told the BBC in 1960.

Near the end of his life, Kane is in a self-made hell of excessive
ego, ambition and acquisition that Welles later described this way: “I
wished to make a picture which might be called a ‘failure story.’ … "My
story was not, therefore, about how a man gets money, but what he does with his
money ~ not when he gets old ~ but throughout his entire career.”

Today, taking a tour of Hearst Castle is like looking inside a part of
the mind of Hearst ~ or that of a Kane or a Trump.

"In real life, I do believe that wealth does in fact
isolate you from other people.” Trump concluded that “It
was a great rise in Citizen Kane. And there was a modest fall.”

That last line, however, suggests that Trump didn’t really
understand the point of Citizen Kane, which was that Kane’s rise, too, was
somewhat delusional and, in the end, a failure. And Trump clearly
believes that, unlike Kane, he will have a great rise without any corresponding
fall at all ~ not even a modest one." With his Mercer
Foundation financial connections, this is understandabledenial but not
true reality.See politico article ~ http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/donald-trump-2016-citizen-kane-213943

In Psychology , Denial is a defense
mechanism in which confrontation with a personal problem or with
reality is avoided by denying the existence of the problem or reality ~ it
also is the first step of Ego death which is
soon followed by Anger and bargaining which the world glimpsed
yesterday in the person of President-elect Donald Trumpat his first press conference.

“One of the things that is really useful if you’re a billionaire and that
you get your money by doing nothing socially useful, is to valorize what you’re
doing and to demonize anyone that might actually restrict it by law, regulation
even social mores. And propaganda is historically, the answer to that.” ~ Bill
Black

We
are indeed living in unsettling times, particularly when reinforced by unstable
leadership, and it's a reminder of one of my favorite quotes by H.L Mencken~ "Giving
every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made
them good."

Heart centered spiritual consultant and advisorAllen L
Roland can be contacted atallen@allenroland.comAllen is also a
lecturer and writerwho shares a weekly political and social commentary
on hisweb logand websiteallenroland.com. He is
also featured columnist on Veterans Today andis a
featured guest on many radio and Television

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I'm a disabled active duty Navy veteran who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, survived a dysfunctional family, pursued and lived my dreams, including being a Navy carrier fighter pilot. I found myself by fully opening my heart, wrote three books, sired four children and I'm still living my ultimate dream by making a difference from a place of celebration and service. My 1998 PhD dissertation on the UNIFIED FIELD was chosen by Noetic Science and Common Boundary as one of the top three world finalists on combining psychology and spirituality. I retired from my private practice in 2014, because of my service connected asbestosis related lung disease, and live in Antioch, California but still remain involved as a featured columnist on Veterans Today and heart centered spiritual consultant and advisor ~ particularly with combat veterans with PTSD as well as others with PTHD ( Post Traumatic Heart Disorder).